J 2025

Uncovering the invisible: A study of Gaia18ajz, a candidate black hole revealed by microlensing

HOWIL, K.; L. WYRZYKOWSKI; K. KRUSZYNSKA; P. ZIELINSKI; E. BACHELET et al.

Základní údaje

Originální název

Uncovering the invisible: A study of Gaia18ajz, a candidate black hole revealed by microlensing

Autoři

HOWIL, K.; L. WYRZYKOWSKI; K. KRUSZYNSKA; P. ZIELINSKI; E. BACHELET; M. GROMADZKI; P. J. MIKOLAJCZYK; K. KOTYSZ; M. JABLONSKA; Z. KACZMAREK; P. MROZ; N. IHANEC; M. RATAJCZAK; U. PYLYPENKO; K. RYBICKI; D. SWEENEY; S. T. HODGKIN; M. LARMA; J. M. CARRASCO; U. BURGAZ; V. GODUNOVA; A. SIMON; F. CUSANO; M. JELINEK; J. STROBL; R. HUDEC; J. MERC; Hana KUČÁKOVÁ; O. ERECE; Y. KILIC; F. OLIVARES; M. MORRELL a M. WICKER

Vydání

ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS, LES ULIS CEDEX A, EDP SCIENCES S A, 2025, 0004-6361

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10308 Astronomy

Stát vydavatele

Francie

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 5.800 v roce 2024

Organizační jednotka

Fyzikální ústav v Opavě

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202451046

UT WoS

001414735800002

EID Scopus

2-s2.0-85217995284

Klíčová slova anglicky

gravitational lensing: microstars: black holesGalaxy: stellar content

Štítky

RIV26, UF

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 2. 2. 2026 13:20, Mgr. Pavlína Jalůvková

Anotace

V originále

Context. Identifying black holes is essential for our understanding of the development of stars and can reveal novel principles of physics. Gravitational microlensing provides an exceptional opportunity to examine an undetectable population of black holes in the Milky Way. In particular, long-lasting events are likely to be associated with massive lenses, including black holes. Aims. We present an analysis of the Gaia18ajz microlensing event reported by the Gaia Science Alerts system. Gaia18ajz is a long-timescale event exhibiting features indicative of the annual microlensing parallax effect. Our objective is to estimate its lens parameters based on the best-fitting model. Methods. We used photometric data obtained from the Gaia satellite and terrestrial observatories to investigate a variety of microlensing models and calculate the most probable mass and distance to the lens, taking into consideration a Galactic model as a prior. Subsequently, we applied a mass-brightness relation to evaluate the likelihood that the lens is a main sequence star. We also describe the DarkLensCode (DLC), an open- source routine that computes the distribution of probable lens mass, distance, and luminosity employing the Galaxy priors on stellar density and velocity for microlensing events with detected microlensing parallax. Results. We modelled the Gaia18ajz event and found its two possible models, the most probable Einstein timescales for which are 316(+36) (-30) days and 299(+25) (-22) days. Applying Galaxy priors for stellar density and motion, we calculated a most probable lens mass of 4.9(-2.3)(+5.4) M (R) located at 1.14(+0.75) (-0.57) kpc, and a less probably mass of 11.1(+10.3) (-4.7) M (R) located at 1.31(-0.60)(+0.80) kpc. Our analysis of the blended light suggests that the lens is likely a dark remnant of stellar evolution rather than a main sequence star.
Zobrazeno: 10. 2. 2026 03:48